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of cold climates do not always stand our
winters owing to our changes of temperature
Readers for next meeting Alice B. Stabler
and Corrie Brooke

Questions
1^st How treat a lemon tree covered with
scale? scrape and wash with soap suds

2 What early tomato is the best? Dr. Magruder
and Ellen Farquhar have tomatoes before any of the rest of us
and they plant the "conqueror.

3 Have any tried sowing oats for a mulch
for strawberries? No.

4 When plant onion seed for sets? Now

5 How did Japanese persimmons, succeed?
They did not stand our winters.

6 How late set hens? 2^nd week in September.

Great complaints are made of loss
of poultry from gapes and vermin.

Bagging grapes does not save them
from rotting. Some of our members lost
many of their celery plants after setting out.
supposed the heat of the weather was the
cause of its dying. Roger Farquhar praises the
cocoanut squash, Rober Stabler thinks snap
beans would be more productive if planted
wider apart than is usual. Some members
complain of the old-fashioned potato beetle

The time fixed for the exhibition is the
13^th of Sept.

Our dear members from Olney could